The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-03
ycath or infancy the mental vigor and
the muscular strength of the man
command ear respect, while the weak


Sc0tn or infancy; the mental vigor and /.
the muscular strength of the man
command ear respect, while the weak-f
ness of infancy invites our tyranny.
So will it be with thesMcrmons, when,
IN a few years. they shall nave develop
ed into huge proportions. The time is
not far distant when there will be in
these valleys, half million followers
of Joseph Smith. Let the Mormon
policy be to maintain energetic mis-
sions throughout the globe. to gather
its converts to this region, to seek to
keep within its commission the
numerous children that are springjng
up. and the right to worship God as
they choose will be voluntarily offered
to them, where now they sue for 1t III
VAIN, The deateued ear will become
sensitive, the calloused heart will over
flow with compassion, when The Nor
mon people become numerous, for that
is to become powerful. When they
become so, railroad corporations ard
merchant princes VIII become
their advocates. Statesmen, fDil-
osopaers, historians, and the
public generally, who now
are entirely Indifferent to Mormon ap
peals. will become interested In ques-
6pn of such vast importance; and ii
they investigate they must ascertain
the truth concerning the people. In
Yestigation, not through Liberal sourc s
or the driver of tourist hacK, not as
to what people say they are but as 10
, what they really are, is what the Nor
mon courts. The result will always be
that they Will be found TO be honest,
sob r thrifty, industrious, virtuous .and
that their local accusers, the political
element among Utah Gentiles. are as
described by a gentleman of eminent
distinction in the scientific world, "a
scurvy set of fellows, hypocritical and
mercenary."
They will even ascertain that polyg-
amy is not entirely bad, and may be
ready to accord to the Mormon people
the right of practicing it, under proper
restraints, which is all the Mormon
ever asked.
Not only may emancipation be
looked for through widespread popular
enlightenment, but also from the politi-
cal power of a body as numerous as
this body will soon become. If Utah
retains its boundaries intact, relief will
come from Democratic Presi-
dent and Democratic Congress,
conjuncture not far distant;
State with two Democratic Senators
and several Congressman of thessame
persuasion, viii be morsel too tempt
ing to neglect. Prejudice may even
run so high. and the judgment be SO
warped, that the boon would not be
granted as a matter of justice, but that
is nothing, it will come as matter of
policy. If, on the same hand, the Ter
ritory should be dismembered, and the
people divided among several adjoining
States, the result will work out the
same-political schemes and necessities
will render it necessary that the Nor
mon should be accorded his full rights.
In numbers there is strength, in
numbers closely united, there is pro-
digious power these conditions will be
filed by the Mormon people, and if
they will but have the patience and
the pluck to face the storms of the
present. they may look with certainty
for bright skies in the future.